Report exposes Indian RAW-Taliban nexus funding BLA and TTP attacks in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Taliban interim Kandahar Governor Mullah Shireen, met with Al-Qaeda in Subcontinent (AQIS) and Tehreek Taliban Pakistan (TTP) representatives to secure backing and financing for the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), with the India’s RAW helping broker meetings to line up outside financing for the BLA, a report citing intelligence sources stated.
 
According to local media reports, an Indian RAW-backed terror syndicate has been found using Afghan soil as a launchpad to train and shelter terrorists while primarily to carry out attacks in Pakistan’s Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) through proxies.

Pakistan has, for years, reported that India continues to use Afghan territory to fund and arm terrorists against Pakistan.
 
The report called it a “fully operational syndicate” between RAW, Afghanistan’s intelligence apparatus and the top leadership of the Taliban regime that runs, trains, and finances terrorist groups striking inside Pakistan.

According to the report, the proxies receiving money, training, and shelter from outside of Pakistan were the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
 
The report, citing the document, also placed the internationally banned al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) inside the same nexus that is “positioned to carry out attacks on Pakistani soil.”

The report stated that the BLA-TTP nexus took root around 2025, built on Afghan training camps already operating with backing from Afghanistan’s General Directorate of Intelligence (GDI).

“Acting on direction attributed to Taliban supreme leader Sheikh Haibatullah Akhundzada, the GDI moved to formally weld the BLA to the TTP and other militant outfits, with India’s RAW helping broker meetings to line up outside financing for the BLA,” said the report.

The report, citing the document, stated that on May 26, 2026, Mullah Shireen, the Taliban-appointed governor of Kandahar, met with AQIS and TTP representatives to “secure backing for BLA operations.”

It added that three follow-up meetings took place that July. 

At the first, the GDI pledged full support for BLA activity inside Pakistan. During the second, held at a TTP compound in Kandahar, the BLA reportedly handed over 3.5 million Afghanis to the group Jamat-ul-Ahrar (JuA). At the third, a sit-down between RAW and the GDI chief took place outside Afghanistan. 

As per the report, a decision was allegedly taken to bankroll coordinated BLA-TTP attacks across Balochistan, with RAW contributing more than 7.8 million US dollars.

The document also describes an emergency summit convened on August 26, 2026, in Kandahar under the patronage of the Taliban administration, bringing together senior BLA, TTP and al-Qaeda figures. 

“Among them Bashir Zeb, Khalil Baloch, Sifatullah Mengal, Anwar Nizami and Majeed Baloch of the BLA, and Hafiz Gul Bahadur, Mullah Mirajuddin, Mullah Asad Waziristani and Mujeeb ur Rehman Gujjar representing the TTP and allied networks,” the report said.

“BLA representatives raised concerns over manpower shortages, the document says, and were assured that TTP and AQIS fighters, weapons and logistics would be made available across Balochistan.”

The document further cited a directive from the Taliban’s Directorate of Bait ul Maal Stability, Registration and Supervision ordering weapons, including assault rifles, RPGs and ammunition, released to an outfit called the “Baloch Refugee Coordination Office,” described as a front for the BLA.

Two senior security officials, commenting on the document’s findings, said it corroborates what Islamabad has long suspected about the scale of cross-border facilitation, though they stopped short of detailing further.